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Parsing allegation of racism

Donna Yawching draws sweeping conclusions regarding the nature, prevalence and roots of present day racism in Toronto, seemingly all based on a single ambiguous interaction over a parking space.

This is a important issue and given that she is a journalist I would have expected that she would have backed up her very serious conclusions with some research or interviews rather than purely on her own conjecture.

Andrew FitzGerald, Toronto

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Donna Yawching seems concerned about “traditional Canadians” who, she feels, must pretend to be all multiculturally-correct or face such tribulations as the Human Rights Commission or the dread social ostracism.

She need not worry. Not all of us hide our reservations regarding “diversity” for such paltry reasons.

As for those who silence themselves, they have no one else to blame for their own cowardice — that last being a word also useful in describing the woman who left the note on Ms Yawching’s windshield.

Robert S. Walker, Toronto

Is this article any less critical and judgmental than “the note left pinned under my windscreen wiper recently”? Does she not also stereotype a whole group of people by the colour of their skin? If instead both ladies had responded with courtesy and co-operation, the outcome for both would have been positive in every way.

Robin Anne Child, Lynden

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